Plus Size No More

I tracked the entire day yesterday!!! and I even had 1.5 points left over at the end of the day :)
It has been such a long time since I have stuck it out and kept on top of my tracking so I really feel like I have accomplished something.

I have been watching this show in the mornings, called supersized v superskinny, and it has been some interesting veiwing. It is unbelievable how unhealthy the skinny people eat!
They hardly eat foods with any nutritional value and are actually doing their body's harm being the way that they are.
Watching this show helps me think about wanting to eat healthy, be healthy and be fit rather then only being concerned with my size.
When joining WW I wanted to do it for all of the above reasons, not just weight loss, but watching this show makes it sink in alot more! I want to be healthy not just skinnny!

I must say I feel more obliged to make sure I am eating my points, and eating from each food group to ensure its a healthy balanced diet. I feel so much better when I eat a balanced diet. Even in the last week I have noticed how much more energy I have. This should help keep the motivation going.

The week just gone, was not the best. But I weighed in this morning and I had a loss!!! 700 grams gone :) Pretty happy about it since I'm only aiming for 500g loss a week.
Despite my loss though I didn't have the best week and I still have alot of work to do in sorting myself out if I am going to stay on this plan andnot fall off track!

Last week:

I didn't track a full day the entire week, but I did try and watch what I ate.

I did drink lots of water every day. And I exercised 4 days during the week, with 3 of those days being intensive sports.

30 day no take away challenge is already a fail! After going to the races on Saturday, hubby and I got home and undecided of what to have for dinner and not being able to drive ourselves anywhere after having a couple of drinks, we ordered pizza! I completely forgot about the no takeway challenge until AFTER the pizza arrived!

So this week:

I will track everyday! And stay within my points!

I will continue to drink my water and add an extra day of exercise (even if its just a walk) to my week.

The no takeaway challange started again yesterday, 30 days of no takeaway and we will make it :)

I feel better about this already! I had sultana bran for breakfast and even weighed my portion! I have watermelon, rockmelon and no fat yogurt for snacks today. Left over vegetable soup for lunch and although I have not planned dinner yet, I will plan it when I go home for lunch today.

Here's to a good week!

I'm slowly starting to get back into tracking. The start of the week I was only tracking half of the day and then I wouldnt track the rest, but today I have tracked the entire day :) only dinner left to go!

I have also succeeded in staying away from the cookie jar at work! 4 days and no biscuits! woo hoo!

I played touch football last night which was alot of fun :) and I have netball training tonight which I am really looking forward to. I really enjoy netball! As I am the captain of our team I have to organise our training, so I planned alot of fitness drills for today. I've been feeling pretty sluggish still and would like to work myself harder. Hopefully everyone will be happy with today's training.

Now my biggest problem of the week is going to be the weekend. My brother is turning 21 this weekend and we are all heading to the local races to celebrate. I'm looking forward to the day but I'm nervous about what choices I will make. Who can turn down champagne at the races? (and I don't go out very often!).
But I guess I will just have to see how I go.
My next dilemma is making sure I have a dress in my cupboard that fits! I've been putting it off all week in case they don't! But only one way to know.
I guess I better go find out!

Yesterday was busy busy busy!! Work was flat out and I tried my hardest to get out on time but it didn't happen. Then I had to rush to volleyball, (which was so much fun) and because hubby and I were doing grocery shopping last night, I had to rush home, shower and get ready. Once home we found out our good friends had had their baby!! Very exciting news so was on the phone for a little while, and delayed our grocery shopping.

We finally made it the grocery store, we rushed around getting what we could before closing time and we were silly enough not to get something easy for dinner for when we got home.. so off to McDonalds we went. :(

And I thought I was doing so well during the day up until that point!

Today I feel exhausted, no energy and I know most of it is because of what I ate. Takeaway foods always make me feel like this... they aren't REALLY enjoyable to eat and they don't give me any energy.

So today is the start of a new challenge that hubby and I have set ourselves.

30 day no takeaway challenge! and after that long without it, it may even go on for longer.
I will however allow the exception of subway.

So today is day one :)

On a a positive note, I stayed away from the cookie jar at work yesterday :)
And I will keep that challenge today as well, because today is going to be a tough one. Whenever I am tired I manage to make my way through the day with a few cups of coffee and some biscuits... but not today! (wish me luck)

Touch football tonight. I play in a mixed team with a few friends, hubby and my brother. Very tough on the leg muscles but I enjoy it :)

Today will be a good day :)

My new attempt at weight loss is off to a BAD start... and for two reasons!

Reason 1: Weigh In was yesterday, but I forgot to weigh in, so this morning I stepped on the scales... and much to my dismay I was 600g heavier than last week! Currently weighing in at 106.5 I am now further from my goal than I thought...

Reason 2: Although I vowed I was on a good start to a slimmer ME yesterday, after a stressful day of work, stressful moments finishing my assignment to be submitted last night and then a long stressful evening of fixing the computer which decided to have a melt down, I gave in, in the worst possible way! After a yummy healthy, point friendly dinner, I scoffed down some chocolate with a cup of tea. And if that wasn't bad enough I had another cup of tea, this time with a big piece of choccy cake!

Although the day ended badly, I am not feeling depressed or extremely down about the above situations (although I am feeling a little guilty and silly). Instead I am trying to look at them in a positive way in order to move forward from these disasters.

Although I am heavier then first mentioned yesterday, this only gives me more motivation to try and lose weight. I am realising more and more I can not keep going up and up in weight. I need to take control of my choices and decisions and make better ones.
And although I had a chocolate party (invitation for one only) last night, it now seems quite obvious that stress is my food trigger. Now that I know this I can work on making better choices when stress rears its ugly head.

So once again, it's a new day!

I have planned healthy meals for the entire day, and I have also allowed points for two chocolate chip cookies that I have packed for work today incase a sugar craving hits this afternoon. (My challenge for the day is also to stay away from the cookie jar at work!)

Will be off to play indoor volleyball tonight, so exercise for the day will be covered and hubby and I are going grocery shopping after that to buy lots of healthy foods :)

Skinny here I come :)

Everyday my mind is filled with thoughts regarding weight loss. What I will do to achieve it, why I want to achieve it, how will I achieve it, What foods should I eat, how will i fit in enough exercise.
I am continuously looking at other women, looking at their size, their shape, and deciding if that is how I want to look, or deciding it's not how I want to look.
Thus the reason for deciding to start a blog. A way to express my thoughts, and perhaps a way to help me act upon them.

Despite my desire to lose weight I have not been very successful in doing so. For the past 5 years I have been a yo yo dieter and in respect of this my weight has yo yo'd also. I have done the shake diet, 12 week recipe book diets, soup diets and Weight Watchers 3 times.
Weight Watchers is the only one that make sense and the only one that I enjoy which is why I have gone back to it.
The last time I joined WW was November last year, I weighed in at 103.8kg. Since joining I have yo yo'd with the plan. Sometimes stuck to it, other times I haven't. My weight has gone up and down and I now currently weigh 105.9kg, 2.1kg heavier then when I started. So enough is enough and now I need to get back on track. I can no longer complain about my weight if I, myself am not REALLY doing anything about it.

I got married last year in September and was able to lose 12kg on my own before my big day. Although I was not at a size I hoped for I was still happy that I had lost the weight. Now I have put almost all of it back on and I end up making myself feel depressed everytime I look at my wedding photos, knowing that I have wasted all that effort in losing weight.
I have so many days when I think I just want to get rid of this excess weight!! It consumes so many of my thoughts.

But here I am, ready to start again! I WILL track my points, I WILL plan what I eat and I WILL lose weight. :)

I WILL be plus size no more!